How to Take a Milk Bar Crawl Through Krakow (Polish Food at Its Finest)
Krakow runs on milk bars. These no-fuss canteens serve affordable yet filling meals that taste like Babcia’s house-big, honking dessert and all-and they hold a deep, nostalgic place in Poland’s national psyche.
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Michals sense of humour wins. Great video!
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching 🤓
Ruskie pierogi means: Ruthenian dumplings. Russian dumplings in Polish would be: Pierogi rosyjskie.
Wrong, The correct translation is not Russian pierogi not Ruthenian piregoi but Rus pierogi. Ruthenian pierogi would be Pierogi rusińskie (which meant rus lands under polish occupation). Calling Ruś/Rus Ruthenia which is not even a word used in polish is a form of sad polish revisionism and propaganda aimed at foreigners. Ruskie means from Ruś which means Rus lands and people which were all the slavic princedoms and states to the east of poland. Poland conquered some Rus lands including what some like to call Ruthenia in english however it's important to remember that Ruthenia was a part Ruś/Rus not some spearate magical entity. Apologize to all Ukrainians for trying to whitewash crimes of polish colonialism. I am reporting you for misinformation and hatred towards Ukrainian people.
@@filipzietek5146Ruthenia means Ruś. For example Red Ruthenia (Ruś Czerwona). What you are talking about is Kievan (Kyivan) Rus (Ruś Kijowska)
@@morvran9074 Yeah and Generalgouvernement means poland, Ruthenia in the modern sense and especially in the context of the pierogi when brought up by the poles is only used for colonized parts of Rus dominated by poles, you hate all rus people so much you can't just admit they are Rus pierogi, you have to say they are ruthenian (which is not even a polish or slavic word) because they only rus people you accept ar the ones you dominated and colonized. Same with racist poles calling chicken Kyiv with a dumb made up french name bechase they hate rus people so much they would lose apetite. You are taking part in cultural geonice of Rus and Ukrainin culture, but you have less balls than your genocidal ancestors.
Przecież jest to wyjaśnione w filmie, po co dodatkowo bić pianę? Czyżby się nie obejrzało do końca? :P
I loved milk bars when I lived in Poland. The food there was cheap and delicious. Kluski Slaskie (Silesian dumplings) smothered with melted butter and sprinkled with powdered sugar were my favorite.
Loved it all! The Silesian dumplings were soooo filling in a good way :)
You had very smart guides👍👊
They were great! I really appreciated their time and knowledge.
That extra energy came from lots of sugar we ate the first day! :) Thanks for making me a part of it :)
Thanks for showing me the way!
@@BaurJoe someday you will do the same for me in Berlin ;)
@estachosPL deal!
Schabowy is the KING of Polish cuisine!!! Amen!!!
I had a nice vegan version while in krakow 🤓 good stuff!
@@BaurJoe Well, I ain't vegan, but I respect your point of view. Thanks for the material, Mate. Cheers from Poland!
@MikeLtm32 thanks for watching! Poland rules!
Yes. Schweinschnitzel, national dish of Austria, is the king of Polish cuisine since the communist times!:)
Kasza is the groats. I love it. It is so helthy the more you eat it the slimmer you will be and full of energy.
I sometimes make kasha varnishkes. Good stuff!
I was once in Poland and really fell in love with the food. We have a lot of vendors selling Döner Kebab here, but I never met a single shop that serves polish food, which is strange and a pity since there are also a lot of Poles in Germany, maybe even more than Turks, I guess.
The food is fantastic! Obviously I’m a fan 🤓nothing beats a hearty plate of pierogi if you ask me. (Ironically, my last travel video was about Turkish food!)
We had a lot of Germans in 1939 in 1945 they were gone
Went to a krakow milk bar,wonderful and so cheap
The affordability is pretty freakin' fantastic!
Kluski slaskie are made of patetoes and out of patetoe storch and an addition of 1 egg. I love the so much.
I was a big fan as well!
No. You do not add egg to Silesian dumplings. Only Potatoes and potato starch. Nothing more.
What a beautifully made video, you did milk bars justice!
Thanks so much! Appreciate that :)
"Kopytka" with butter and sugar.
Oh no no no...kopytka with fried bred crumbs on butter...up to the taste 😂😂😂
1:50 it have caffine and teobromine :) it is in the end Cacao
whole country run on milk bars
There are worse things to run on! 🤓
Cracow in Polish is Kraków which is pronounced like: Krakoov.
Fun fact, coca actually does have caffeine, just much less than coffee.
Indeed! That’s what I wrote in the accompanying article. Thanks for watching!
I think I have the right to write to you that Polish farmers can provide up to 200 million people with healthy and durable food products. They could, but the EU doesn't allow it! Moreover, the culture of Polish cuisine combines all the needs of every person from any climatic zone. Polish cuisine has an extraordinary wealth of dishes from game, pork, beef, poultry, sea and inland fish, etc. But, Polish cuisine also offers plenty of soups, dairy dishes, vegetarian dishes, vegan dishes, dishes with vegetables, fruits and mushrooms. The cook of the Polish king, Jan III Sobieski - Stanisław Czeniecki wrote the first real cookbook in Europe. This is an incredible wealth for anyone who appreciates good food. Personally, I recommend drinking fruit compote (with the last money left in your pocket) at a Polish milk bar. You won't be full, but you will fall in love with Polish cuisine and forget about Coca-Cola or Pepsi! SMACZNEGO
Sprinkling sugar on everything is a regional feature of the central part of Poland. They put sugar in salads, in soups, in sauces. In addition, the service in milk bars is sometimes rude to the core. 1. It happened to me that when I asked for a pinch of salt in my porridge instead of sugar, the cook knocked the head letting everyone around know I'm crazy than pointing at me and screaming loudly: "He's a moron! He ordered SALT to his oat!!!" (1982 Bar Uniwersytecki, Warsaw). 2. Another time my friend still felt hungry after eating his meal. He asked for a next portion of mashed potatoes. The cashier called the cook, and she came out holding a large cauldron. She dipped her bare hand there, scooped up the mash, and put it on my friend's plate (1985 Bar Żelazny, Warsaw's district Praga). 3. Not only students and retirees visited milk bars these times. Sometimes people known from TV and movies appeared there. One evening in a bar I met a very famous actor and director in the company of a very attractive young lady (the actor was already well into his sixties, she was barely twenty). They ate a dinner of dumplings and chattered lovingly to each other. Suddenly one of the cooks couldn't stand it anymore, she walked up to the table and hit the table with a wet cloth and she said: "Mr. Hanuszkiewicz! You can fuck around in hotels like Victoria or Forum (most posh places those days). Get outta here!".
Wow! Sounds like you have some milk bar stories 😂 Thanks for watching!
Milk bars, Amber, and salt. Krakow is awesome.
Sure is!
damn only a few thousand subs? well made video here. Thanks!
Thanks! I’ve been getting that my entire KZhead career 😂 Not sure if I should be honored or depressed 🤪 Either way, thanks for watching!
No soup!? Usually i eat soup in this bar
Which bar? There’s a żurek in the video at some point.
@@BaurJoe I mean in general for example pomidorowa is moust famus soup for bar mleczny but my favorite is ogórkowa
@wojciechtaras8331 so many soups, so little time 😂
Not sweet cheese but with sweet cottage cheese or curd.
Great video, I wonder how the milk bars make money, unless they are subsidized by the govt Cheers
They are subsidized, so that's certainly part of it.
Bary Mleczne są dotowane przez rząd
"Pierogi ruskie" means 'Rutheranian dumplings' This boy spoke untruthfully about the name of "ruskie" dumplings/pierogi. The name is not derived from Kyivan Rus, but from the name of the historical land of Red Ruthenia, which was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, as well as the former Polish Eastern Borderlands. Shame on you for misleading people. "Ruskie pierogi" does not mean "Russian pierogi". The word "Ruskie" in this case is an adjective made from the word "Ruś" / “The Red Ruthenia” - that is a historical name for a land located basically in north-western Ukraine and south-eastern Poland (this land once was in Poland) so "Ruś" is not synonymous with Russia or Ruś Kijowska/Kyivan Rus (which back then was and still are different places). The correct translation is 'Rutheranian dumplings', definitely not 'Russian dumplings'.
That’s what he said? He was very clear that it does not mean Russian dumplings and refers to Ruthenia. But thanks for watching!
You are correct. I can not agree more.
I always wonder why YT clips on Polish food are 95% fantasy, with people describing some weird family quirks as "traditional Polish cuisine" and distant childhood memories as "history":).
To add to this history lesson. Yes ruskie pierogi supose to be translate into Ruthenian "dumplings" but its not just ruthenia. Its red ruthenia which was part of poland. So yes. It is ukrainian land but from times when it was polish. Thats why i fiding this offensive to call them ukrainian. Bc its like calling English language AMERICANISH and suggesting that people in UK speak american.
The thing is that ukrainians don't cook pierogi (or vareniki) with potatoe and cheese. They cook it either with cottage cheese filling or potatoe filling. Dish such as "varieniki with potatoe and cheese filling" does not exist in ukrainian cuisine. So i guess it is just resonable to stay with a ruthenian pierogi, as they truly are, since ukrainians don't even coock them...
15:20 What? Kluski is flour based? Since when? Pierogi's dough is 100% wheat flour based, kluski's dough is 100% potato mash plus eggs plus potato starch for adding gummier texture.
It's good when the guide knows the history! Unfortunately, yours mostly told fairy tales. These two boys know nothing about Polish cuisine. Too many mistakes to straighten it out. The slogan "Sugar strengthens you - Cukier krzepi" was invented by Melchior Wańkowicz, a journalist and writer, in 1931. In everyday use there was a paraphrase of this advertising slogan; Sugar strengthens, but vodka does so much more.🤣🤣😂 The first milk bar, called "Mleczarnia Nadświdrzańska"(Today, in this place there is building , the pre-war, majestic building of BGK - Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego at Aleje Jerozolimskie 7) was established in 1896 in Warsaw by Stanisław Dłużewski, a member of the Polish nobleman , landed gentry. Although the typical bar mleczny had a menu based on dairy items, these establishments generally served other, non-dairy traditional Polish dishes as well. The commercial success of the first milk bars encouraged other businessmen to copy this type of restaurant. As Poland regained its independence after World War I, milk bars appeared across most of the country. They offered relatively cheap but nourishing food, and thus achieved even more prominence during the economic depression of the 1930s and World War II. Poland became a communist state in the Eastern Bloc. Contrary to official propaganda, the majority of the population was poor, and even moderately-priced restaurants were derided as "capitalist". During the post-war years, most restaurants were nationalized and then closed down by the communist authorities. In the mid-1960s, milk bars were common as a means of offering cheap meals to people working in companies that had no official canteen. They still served mostly dairy-based and vegetarian meals, especially during the period of martial law in the early 1980s, when meat was rationed. After the fall of communism, milk bars gave way to dynamically developing normal gastronomy. Due to their good locations, milk bars often fall victim to gentrification and are defended by activist groups. Today milk bars are privately owned, but partly subsidized by the state and local governments, which allows it to offer low prices. The quality of food in milk bars is poor. It doesn't remind me of home-cooked food, nor does it remind me of my grandmother or mother. Ruthenian dumplings (pierogi ruskie)come from Red Ruthenia, which is now the Podkarpackie Voivodeship and part of western Ukraine. Saint Jacek Odrowąż popularized them in the crown already in the 12th century. The only correct English translation is Ruthenian dumplings. Ukrainian dumplings are nonsense. Dumplings from Russia are pelmeni, and from Ukraine they are varienki.
You go to every foreign vlog and try to teach people visiting Poland ! Why don’t you make own vlog !
@@EA00000 Bo w czasach głupoty, kłamstwa i manipulacji nie można pozostawiać półprawd albo banialuk bez sprostowania. Później taki Trump albo Kaczyński dochodzą do władzy, a są jeszcze gorsi idioci ale świetni manipulatorzy. Jak ci się nie podoba nie czytaj moich komentarzy.
16:20 Ruskie ≠ Rosyjskie, thats a diffirent words, een in coloquial language ofen we say Ruscy/Ruski but it perojative word to name Russians(Rosjanie) wic we dont like overall in Poland.
Pierogies originally came from China